SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Colonist, Volume XVI, Issue 1162, 22 August 1873, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

INTBBBD ISWABDB. August 20—Wellington, steamer, 262, Carey, from Taranaki and Manukau. Passengers—Air and Mrs Wright, Miss Wright, Meaars Hassy, Shand, .Brown, Praper, Furlong, Elliott, Sowler, Kearnsly, Kilimatier, 2 Maoris, and 22 for South. 20—Lady Barkly, steamer, 30, Walker, from Motueka. , „ 21—Standard, ketch, 10, Westrupp, from New Harbor, • 21—Gazelle, brig, 260, Brent, from Newcastle. 21—Murray, steamer, 78, Whitwell, from Westport, &c. OLEABED OUTWARDS. August 20—Planet, cutter, 12, Johniiton, for Motueka. , , 20—Lady Barkly, steamer, 30, Walker, for Collingvrood, &c. 20—Arthur Wakefleld, schooner, 30, Watt, for Wanganui. 1 passenger. . 20—Wellington, steamer, 262, Carey, for Pioton and South. Passengers—Miss Colt, Mr and Mrs M'Rae and 2 children, Miss Porteous, Mrs Stafford, Mr and Mrs Ooffey, Mesßrs Seymour, Everett, Peek, Robs, Korte, Court, Kearae, Draper, Gavin, Taylor, Haycock, Herrick, Seabray, and 22 original. BXPECTBD ABBIVALS. Paterson, from Taranaki and Manukau, to-day. Lady Barkly, from Collingwood, &c, to-day. Lyttelton, p.s., from Blenheim, to-day. Wallace, p.s, from West Coast, to-morrow. Phoebe, s.s., from South, August 24. Kennedy, s.s, from West Coast, August 25 Albambra, b.s, from Melbourne, via West Coast, August 26 , - . n m Taranaki, from Taranaki and Manukau, Aug. 27 Annie Braginton, barque, from London. • Malay, barque, from London. PROJECTED DEPABTTTBBB. Paterson, p.s, for South, to-morrow. Murray, b.s, for West Coast, to-morrow. Napier, b.s., for Wellington, August 25 Lyttelton, p.s, for Blenheim, August 2o ' Phoebe, for Taranaki and Manukau, August 25 Wallace, p.s., for West Coast, August 27. # Alhambra, b.s., for Melbourne, via South (with outward English Mail), August 27. Taranaki, s.s., for South, August 27 IMPOSTS. Ex Gazelle, from Newcastle : 311 tons coal, J. S. Cross, jun.; 30 cases orangeß, 4 cases lemons, Order. EXPOBTS. Per Lady Barkly, for Collingwood, &c: 22 bags " sugar, 1 qr-cask, 1 case, 9 pkgs, 3 bars iron, 2 parcels, N. Edwards & Co; 17 pkgs, E. Buxton & Co; 1 parcel, Central Board ; 2 pkgs, Robertson; 6 boxes, 8 2 half-chests tea, Davis; 1 box tobaoco, Levien; 2 c sacks pollard, 6 tins, Griffin; 1 pkg, Louisson; 3 caiks, 5 pkgs, Morrison, Sclanders, & Co; 1 case, r Fisher.; 8 sacks coal, J. S. Cross, jun.; 5 boxes soap, d Patterson. . . —, . no v ie Per Arthur Wakefield, for Wanganui; 38 bags o sugar, N. Edwards & Co } 1 box, Bonnington } 4 d sacks, Hale; 57 tons coal, J. S. Crois, jun. o Per Wellington, for Picton and South: 5 oases, :t 20 bags sugar, N. Edwards & Co; 6 oases, Morrison, i- Solanders, & Co; 1 case, Hadfield; 3 cbeeies, 2 rs boxes, 1 bag, Webster; 1 cheese, 1 sase; Fisher; 1 n pkg, Thornton ; 1 half-chest tea, Cawthron; 1 case, Hounsell; 1 parcel, Black; 2 boxes, Harling; 10 cases hematite, Louisson; 1 case, Lorensen; 1 case, Maokay.

TOT WBMINOTOH, from Taranaki and Manukau, entered the harbor on Wednesday morning, and left for Southern Ports same, afternoon.; She took a large number of passengers. ;, t The Mubbat, from West Coast ports, ; arrived *»■■ yesterday afternoon. She brought a large quantity a" of Grey coal as freight* as usual, besides a number of °: passengers. . , _ ld Thb next boat from the South will be the Phcrbb, Se due here on Suuday morning. She will leave for Northern Ports on Monday evening. ~'■—.-. Thb Wallace was to leave Greymouth, for Westport and Nelson, lbst night, and will be due here A to-morrow morning. ~ , ~ j Thb Kennedy leaves Hokitika, for Greymouth, this morning. . The Lttxeixoh was expected to leave Blenheim last night, for Nelson. She brings a cargo of sheep. Thb brig Gazblle, Captain Brent, arrived here on Wednesday last, from Newcastle, after a passage of 11 days, bringing a cargo of coals for Mr. J.S. Cross, junior. She left Newcastle on the night of the Bth, [~ with light winds and fair weather, which only lasted for 12 hours, when a fresh gale set in from the ye S S.E., driving the vessel to the northward of Howe's Island, when it cleared up; fine weather from the N.WandS.Wwas then experienced up to sighting Cape Farewell on the 18th instant; after which light 7 winds and fine weather till arrival. Passed the S barque Ann and Jane, from Nelson, on the 10th, 150 miles from Newcastle; also, on the 11th, a ship, supposed to be the Excelsior, from Nelson, bound to Newcastle. We thank Captain Brent for late files of Sydney and Newoastle papers. Thb p.s. Patebson may be expected to arrive here this morning, having left the Manukau at 4 p.m. on Wednesday. She leaves for South to-morrow. LOGS OF THE SCHOONER MABY AND AIL HANDS _ off Newcastle. —The fore-and-aft schooner Mary left Newoastle wharf at about 11 a.m. on a reoent date, on a voyage to Sydney. About two hours JT after leaving, when about seven miles off, she was struck by a squall, and suddenly disappeared. The aocident having been seen from the shore, the Harbor-Master immediately despatched two tug steamen to search for any of the crew that might be floating about, but not a man or a vestige of the vessel were to be seen. It is supposed that she capsized, filled, arid went down. There were five hands on board at the time*. The Sydney Morning Herald of a recent date ia y ß ._««An inquiry into a charge of drunkenness against Ebenezer Watson Watt, master of the Bothwell Castle, on the voyage between Glasgow and Sydney, preferred by a number of the crew, was held by the Marina Board, and resulted in the master s certificate being suspended for twelve months.' 1 Viilany. — Infernal Maohine. —An infernal maohine, said to be invented by an American for the • purpose of destroying over-inßured ships, is the subject of a letter in The Times of June 13, from Mr. P. H. Hemming, the Venezuelan consul in London. The machine looks like a block of coal of about 6in. by 3in., and could be put into the coal bunkers without the slightest suspicion. Once there, it would when thrown into the furnace explode after a fixed time. Mr. Hemming says that on the 16th of = April a gentleman called on him and stated that a sailing vessel had then left, or was on the eve of leaving, a port in France for one of the prinoipal ports in Venezeula, and that a native of France, who had been for some years previous to the last fifteen or eighteen months resident in Venezuela, was said — to have sailed in this vessel, taking with him a supply 2A. of these " infernal machines," expressly adapted to the secret destruction of steamships. Fortunately, Mr. Hemming received this information on the day w of the West Indian mail steamer sailing, and lost no time in sending full particulars direct to the &> authorities at the Venezuelan port in question, and also sent the same to the Government at Caracas. " I was subsequently," he says, " shown one of the int machines themselves, about fiin. by 4in., with the k. exact appearance of an ordinary piece of coal. I was told that some w«*a made considerably larger, Ac even to the size of a man's head, but always to der resemble ooals, the- reason of which is- obvious, by Nearly a month later I had another visit from the iv »ame person, who told me that he had recently heard 1 that there were some persons in the Venezuelan port Iree referred to who were interested in some merohant "•» steamers, and that they, were preparing for a giganlie baud. The plan proposed was to load one of these steamers with goods of no actual value, and then put some of theie machines on board, and send her to sea heavily insured, in the hope that she might be lost, k vA th»j would gain a vtrj larg« turn,"

High Watbb at Nbwok. Mora. Friday, August 22 ... 8-41 Saturday, „ 23 ... 921 Sunday, „ 24 ... 956 Monday, „ 25 ... 1024 Tuesday, „ 26 ... 10-49 I Afternoon. 91 941 ' 1011 10-36 11-2